Fence-post.



No. 731,612. PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903.

V. E. RANDALL.

PENGE POST.

APPLIOATION FILED APR, 3, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

Jaw/0V 70/4 UNITED STATES Patented June 23, 1903.

VICTOR E. RANDALL, OF BURLINGTON, MICHIGAN.

FENCE-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,612, dated June 23, 1903.

Application filed April 3, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR E. RANDALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burlington, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fence-Posts; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,

consists in certain details of construction and combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a per spective view of my improved post with fencing secured thereto. tioual view ofmy improved post, showing the triangularly-arranged'fluted iron cores I employ for stiffening the post. Fig. 3 is a section of a post, showing a modified form of se-' curing the lacing or tightening wire; and Fig. 4 is an enlarged cross-section through that part of the post where the lacing-wire hooks are located.

state I supply a series of fluted iron strips bb b. Thesestrips I prefer to have somewhat wider than they are thick, and I also prefer to have them arranged triangular, withthe.

narrowest dimensions verging toward a common center, the object being to provide a bracing-framework that will stiffen the coment superstructure from lateral strain,while by the provision of the corrugations the surrounding cement compost will the more firmly Fig. 2 is a side and sec-' derial No. 101.289. (No model.)

adhere and the tendency from breakage be greatly lessened.

d d are metallic pieces bent to form hooks upon either end. These pieces are also introduced into the post while in a plastic state and by preference located at a point between the coresb b and extend crosswise of the post, so thattheir ends willprotrude from the sides thereof to form hooks, whose points trend backward from the face of the post, as will be shown in Fig. 4. The hooks d d are distributed from a point where the post enters the ground to the top thereof, as may become expedient. Some may prefer to locate them so that a single fencing-strand will intervene between each set of hooks. It is found that three and at the least two strands of wire to be encompassed between the hooks will be found entirely satisfactory. Such a plan will be clearly shown in Fig. 1.

c c c are grooves located upon the face of the post, within which fencing-strands e e are introduced.

B is a wire lacing-strip formed into a loop, the loop end 0 thereof engaging (by preference) the front base of the post, its ends thence passing under and overthe hooks d (1 upon either side of the-post, thence over the bottom wire and over the succeeding wires until a second or succeeding set of hooks are located, over which said strip is laced, continuing until the top set of hooks are laced, whence the ends are united by twisting, which by preference is also united upon the face side of the post thereof. In Fig. 3 the lacing or binding strip B is crossed between each series ofhooks.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a fence-post, the artificial-stone body A provided with the fluted triangularly-arranged metallic strips b, and the transverselyarranged hooks d disposed between the metallic strips and protruding from the sides of the post, substantially as shown and for the purposes set forth and described.

"2. The combination in an artificial-stone of said post, impinging the fencing against fence-post, having the grooves c, of the lacsaid post, and united at its free ends by twist- IO ing strip 13 the longitudinally arranged ing; substantially as shown and for the purhooks d, protruding from either side of the poses set forth.

5 post thereof and engaging the lacing-strip B, VICTOR E. RANDALL.

said strip comprising a loop 0, the curve of Witnesses: which engages the face of said post, its ends RAY BARNES,

lockin g over hooks ddisposed along either side i CARRIE JOHNSON. 

